FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Project Application ID:
Funding Request:
Matching Share:
Total Project Cost:
2009-016
$197,275
$199,520
$396,795
NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE GRANT PROPOSAL
Applicant Information
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Applicant/Organization Oregon Dept. of Forestry/ NEO District/Pendleton
Type of Applicant: State
Contact Person: Mary Helen Smith/David King
Address: 2600 State Street
City Salem
State Oregon
Zip: 97310
Phone: 503-945-7341
Ext.
FAX: 503-945-7416
Call Ahead for FAX:
Phone (Work/Cell):
Email: msmith@odf.state.or.us /dking@odf.state.or.us
Project Information
2
Name of Project: Ukiah Fuels Treatment and Prevention
Proposed Start Date: 8/1/09
Proposed End Date:
City: Ukiah
State:
County: Umatilla
Congressional District:
Latitude (decimal degrees): 45.2667
Longitude (decimal degrees):
Please indicate planned treatments and associated acres
12/31/12
Oregon
2
-118.9333
400
Total Actual Project Acres:
Treatment (1)
Acres
Treatment (2)
Acres
Total Treatment Acres
Thinning
400
Biomass Removal
400
Treatment (3)
Acres
Treatment (4)
Acres
1200
Mastication/Mowing 400
0
Treatment (5)
Acres
Treatment (6)
Acres
Cost Per Acre
0
0
Treatment (other-A) Acres
Treatment (other-B)
Acres
$ 330.66
0
0
Please indicate how this project relates to a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP):
This community has a wildfire protection plan that follows the Healthy Forest Restoration Act
CWPP guidelines.
yes
This project is identified in the CWPP.
yes
Name of CWPP Umatilla County CWPP - Blue Mts/Foothills Region
Name of Community at Ukiah/Battle Mt/Albee/Hidaway/Lehman
Risk:
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Project Area Description
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Provide a brief overview of the project and the project area. (If applying for a fuels reduction
project, identify vegetation types, fire regime) [1500 Characters Maximum]
The project targets three WUI areas identified in the Umatilla County CWPP, adjacent to 2 Umatilla
National Forest fuels reduction projects (Weasel and Big Owens). The project will treat 400 acres
(250 residences) of overstocked and decadent Ponderosa pine, Lodgepole pine, and mixed conifer
forest stands surrounding identified Communities at Risk. The WUI areas targeted for treatment are
currently in a Fire Regime of 1 and 3 and a Condition Class of 2 and 3. Participating homeowners
will be required to comply with Firewise standards. Private woodlands will be targeted for thinning,
biomass removal, and mastication in order to create defensible fire breaks and augment fuels
treatment on federal land, creating a landscape-level treatment project area. Funds will be used to
assist property owners to meet defensible space standards by providing risk assessments, prevention
education materials, fuels reduction consultation, and cost-share incentives for fuels reduction
treatments. Work on these private forest lands will be coordinated wherever possible with adjacent
USFS project work.
Project Timeline
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Provide a timeline for the project. [500 Characters Maximum]
*Summer 2009 - initiate contact with landowners of potential properties identified in the Umatilla
County CWPP-WUI areas
*Summer/Fall 2009 - complete landowner agreements, on-site evaluations, on-site implementation,
provide prevention education and media messages, begin fuels reduction and defensible space
project work.
*Winter 2009 through Winter 2012 - wrap up fuels reduction work, create final reports and monitor
projects for maintenance; outreach education on maintenance.
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Scope of Work
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Provide a brief scope of work which clearly describes how grant funds will be spent. (This
should be more specific than the project description) [1500 Characters Maximum]
The project will provide prevention/education, technical assistance to property owners (250
residences) regarding defensible space/treatment options, cost-share incentive payments (75/25) for
creation fuels reduction in 5 Communities at Risk (4 WUI areas). Project would use the "Firewise"
program to educate 575 homeowners about being proactive in prevention with the goal to alter fire
behavior by thinning, mastication, and removal of heavy accumulation of dead and down fuels,
brush, and ladder fuels to create silviculturally-sound, defensible fire breaks. Biomass utilization,
including firewood and small diameter wood products, would be encouraged. Treatments will be
timed so that impacts from bark beetles are minimized. This project is adjacent to two USFS fuels
reduction/stewardship projects (Umatilla NF - Weasel and Big Owens) that are actively working to
reduce the hazard on public lands next to private lands. Current treatments on these public lands
and this grant project would create a landscape approach to hazard reduction in these fire-prone
areas. This is in an area that is very susceptible to lightning storms, a natural ignition source (a
higher percentage of fires are started by lightning than other causes). During Fire Season 2007, this
area was directly impacted by numerous lighting events, burning almost 5,000 acres of private and
public lands (Ukiah Complex, Log Springs Complex, and other individual fires).
Interagency Collaboration
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Specify the private, local, tribal, county, state, federal and/or non-governmental [501(c)(3)]
organizations that will contribute to or participate in the completion of this project. Describe
briefly the contributions each partner will make (i.e. – donating time/equipment, funding, etc.)
[500 Characters Maximum]
*ODF-staff time & consultation, equipment, publicity & education to identify, sign up, administer,
evaluate,& approve project work. Assist landowners with technical advice.
*USFS-personnel time, equipment, publicity, & education to help facilitate fuels treatment work on
contiguous federal & private properties.
*Northwest Passage Wildfire Prevention Coop-provide interagency sponsorship for wildfire
prevention using "Firewise"/"I'm Concerned" to help educate/mitigate.
Fuels for Schools - biomass
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Project Longevity / Maintenance
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Clearly describe how the proposed treatments will be maintained over time. [500 Characters
Maximum]
Private landowners are required to sign an agreement to maintain the fuel reduction area for a period
of 10 years. On-going monitoring is done by patrol and frequent visits in the area. Three years after
the project completion, a mailing will be sent to the landowner with prevention education and
vegetation management information materials. Five years after completion, an on-site assessment
will be scheduled and further technical assistance will be provided.
Biomass Utilization
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For the purpose of this application, biomass utilization is defined as any practicable end-use of the material that
has value, or the trading of capital for the woody material.
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Biomass from treatment(s) will be utilized. (check one)
yes
no
1) If yes, how is it planned to be used, or what is the end-result (wood products, steam/energy,
mulch etc.) [500 Characters Maximum]
Non-merchantable material will be chipped, used for steam/energy, firewood, and the post/pole
market wherever it can be utilized at the time project work is being implemented. proactive approach
to biomass utilization will be practiced. At this time, the most likely opportunities exist in programs
like Fuels for Schools or with either the Kinzua Corp. or the Co-Gen Company.
2) Identify company or contractors involved in project utilization. [250 Characters Maximum]
The Co-Gen Company in Prairie City and Kinzua Corp. in Pilot Rock are the closest potential markets
for chip utilization. There are smaller outlets available for firewood and post and pole yards.
3) Estimate anticipated value of biomass to be removed ($/Green Ton; $/Bone-dry Ton;
$/Hundred Cubic Feet (CCF), $/Acre Treated) [250 Characters Maximum]
The current value is $20 per bone-dry ton. The potential exists for approximately 8 tons per acre of
recoverable material.
400 acres x 8 tons x $20/ton = $64,000
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Project Budget
Cost Category
Description
Federal
Agency
Matching Share
Applicant
Landowners
Total
Prevent Coop
Personnel
$17,665.00
Technical Assistance
$7,891.00
Protection 4% Admin
Subtotal $25,556.00
$145,520.00
$0.00
$145,520.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$0.00
$5,000.00
$168,185.00
$7,891.00
$176,076.00
$8,480.00
$0.00
Subtotal $8,480.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$8,480.00
$0.00
$8,480.00
$2,250.00
3000 miles at .75/mile
$1,275.00
Training-WUI/NFP
Subtotal $3,525.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,250.00
$1,275.00
$3,525.00
$0.00
$0.00
Subtotal $0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,850.00
$0.00
Subtotal $2,850.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$2,850.00
$0.00
$2,850.00
$147,000.00
$0.00
Subtotal $147,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$49,000.00
$0.00
$49,000.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$196,000.00
$0.00
$196,000.00
$9,864.00
$0.00
Subtotal $9,864.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$9,864.00
$0.00
$9,864.00
Fringe Benefits
Other Payroll Expenses (OPE)
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Office Paper, Forms, etc.
Contractual
Cost Share for Fuels Treat
Other
Business Serv 5% Indirect
Total Costs
$197,275.00
$145,520.00
$49,000.00
$5,000.00
$396,795.00
Project (Program) Income1
(using deductive alternative)
1
Program income is the gross revenue generated by a grant or cooperative agreement supported activity during the life of the grant.
Program income can be made by recipients from fees charged for conference or workshop attendance, from rental fees earned from
renting out real property or equipment acquired with grant or cooperative agreement funds, or from the sale of commodities or items
developed under the grant or cooperative agreement. The use of Program Income during the project period may require prior
approval by the granting agency.
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